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2023-08-01 18:02:00

Damian Lillard wants to leave Portland. It’s no secret, and since the opening of the free agency, Dame DOLLA no longer hides her desire to leave the grayness of Oregon to join the sun of South Beach in Miami. The Heat’s interest is mutual, but the leader’s XXL contract and its duration mean that negotiations are tough. And while the Blazers do not seem in a hurry to give up their star, we would start to get annoyed on the side of the Heat. Miami doesn’t seem to have enough to satisfy its counterpart.. what might put an end to Lillard’s desires?

Lillard, the Heat and nothing else

Free agency was the last straw that broke the camel’s back. While he had agreed with his franchise for the arrival of a big name capable of coming to support him in his quest for the title, Lillard had a funny surprise not seeing .. anyone arrive. The cap Portland had under his belt? Sent in the huge contract of Straw Grant. Probably not what Lillard dreamed of.

Since then, he has clearly announced the color. He wants to leave. And for a specific destination. THE Heat de Miami. Lillard wants to win, Miami was very close last season, marriage is a dream on paper. Especially since the Heat, with Adebayo in the racket, Caleb Martin et Jimmy Butler on the wings, above all looking for a leader scorer able to accompany and relieve Jimmy B. What might be better than a player capable of slamming 32.2 points on average last season?

Others have tried their luck since the announcement of his desire to leave the North West United States. But the quest promises to be in vain, as the player’s agent reports: “I do what I have to do for my client. I called some teams. Others called me. It’s a respectful relationship with most franchises. In truth, he wants to play in Miami. Period.” Which has the merit of being quite clear.

Blazers master the game

The downside is that Lillard is not in control. Having signed an extension last year (122 million dollars over two years), the playmaker is therefore under contract with his franchise until 2027. Certainly, with 270 million dollars to raise over the next five years, he is not to be pitied. Yes but now, he is eager to leave his hometown to finally have a chance to get a ring.

Except now Portland has Lillard’s future in their hands and doesn’t have to rush. On the one hand, because very few teams can afford to recruit him in view of his emoluments. On the other hand, because he swears by one franchise: the Miami Heat. He wants find jimmy butler and last season’s finalists to give themselves a shot at the Larry O’Brien Trophy.

The equation is all the more complicated as the consideration offered by the Heat to Blazers does not seem to be satisfactory. Miami, which only has two draft rounds in the next three editions, will therefore have to try to get rid of some of its big salaries (Tyler Herro, Kyle Lowry, Duncan Robinson) in a deal with at least three teams. The Floridians will then have to find something to supplement their workforce already depopulated by the departures of Gabe Vincent, Victor Oladipoor Max Strus.

Moreover, Portland has total freedom on the subject. And may, in the event of a satisfactory offer, send Damian Lillard wherever it suits him. Although the latter told his agent that no other destination than South Florida interested him. What the NBA replied to him, calling him to order, to tell him that it is indeed his frankness that sets the conditions: “We have advised Goodwin and Lillard that any future comments, made privately to teams or in public, suggesting that Lillard will not fully perform the services under his player contract in the event of a trade, will subject Lillard to disciplinary action from from the NBA, the memo says. We have also informed the Players Association that any similar comments from players or their agents will be subject to disciplinary action in the future.“Which probably won’t matter much.

Damian Lillard may not be at the end of his troubles. While his desire to join the Heat continues to grow, his frankness seems to stall. She has the cards in hand and will not sell off her superstar. The soap opera is probably only at its beginning.

Heart bruised by the end of Rodgeur’s career, I rely on The Beard’s stepback. Nothing like an incandescent Velodrome to make me capsize with happiness

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2023-08-01 21:46:00

The child, Farida Othman, the granddaughter of engineer Hani Mahmoud, former Minister of Communications and advisor to the Prime Minister, passed away today.

Engineer Hani Mahmoud, who held the position of Minister of Administrative Development, wrote on his personal account on Facebook: Survival of God carried out God’s will and God recovered his deposit, my granddaughter and apple of my eye, Farida Ahmed Othman.

And he continued: It is such calamities that God tests the strength of our faith and sincerity in monotheism, so we only say what pleases God: “We belong to God and to Him we shall return, O God, reward me in my calamity, and replace it with something better for me.”

He added: We thank God that we enjoyed Farida’s presence with us for a full 13 years, which are the most beautiful years in our lives. God willing, she will be Farida with her charming smile at our reception at the gates of Paradise.

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2023-08-01 18:15:45

An earthmoving company wants to move to the Stembert zoning in Verviers. Residents are worried: there will be a crusher, it will make noise. The bosses of the company want to reassure and underline that they are there in an industrial economic activity zone.

A crusher

Terrac does earthworks, landscaping, demolitions and “deconstructions”. Waste such as bricks, stones, and reinforced concrete can be recycled, but before recycling, they must be crushed.

Neighbors in the zoning are worried regarding it: a crushing machine will make noise. A new business will be a hit. These residents are trying to mobilize on social networks: “rreact and join us” writes one, “the concern is all the trucks that are likely to increase and cross our village” worries a second.

“We have planned a small capacity machine” wants to reassure Claudy Manguette, one of the bosses. Materials to be crushed will not come from far and the company will only crush “sixty days a year at most and during office hours”. This is what the permit application provides.

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2023-08-01 14:45:35

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network participates in the International Fact-Finding Mission to Venezuela on US Imperialism, launched by the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the National Lawyers Guild (EU) on the impact of US sanctions, blockades and economic measures once morest the Venezuelan nation and its people.

The fact-finding mission is made up of delegates representing a range of international organizations, including leading lawyers, jurists, academics and activists. The mission will present its findings on Friday July 28 in an all-day public session on the impact of the sanctions on a wide range of social, economic, political and cultural factors.

Samidoun’s international coordinator, Charlotte Kates, who is also part of the Tribunal’s management committee, is taking part in this mission. Samidoun is co-sponsoring the ongoing work of the Tribunal Against American Imperialism and its economic aggressions once morest the peoples and nations of the world, including the Palestinian people, among others through the current siege of Gaza.

The fact-finding mission will hold a series of meetings, site visits and forums with Venezuelan government officials, anti-sanctions activists, women’s, health and agricultural organizations, communities and a cross section of people who have been impacted by the US imperialist policy of sanctions and coercive economic measures. It is taking place within the framework of the ongoing International People’s Tribunal, which has already set up hearings on US imperialist sanctions in Zimbabwe, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, Palestine, Eritrea, in Nicaragua, Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Libya, and will hold future ones around Hawaii and Puerto Rico as well.

Among the participants in the fact-finding mission are:

Helyeh Doutaghi, Co-Chair, International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism; Suzanne Adely, President, National Lawyers Guild, Steering Committee of the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism; Max Ajl, Senior Researcher at the Department of Conflict and Development Studies at Ghent University, Steering Committee of the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism; Corinna Mullin, anti-imperialist and anti-colonial scholar operating in New York, board of directors of the International People’s Tribunal on American imperialism; Charlotte Kates, International Coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Steering Committee of the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism; Edre Olalia, interim president, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, jurist, member of the International People’s Tribunal on American imperialism; Mohammed Tay, professor emeritus in constitutional law, labor law and private administrative law at the Lebanese University, jurist, member of the International People’s Tribunal on American imperialism; Jaribu Hill, civil law and human rights lawyer, executive director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights, jurist, member of the International People’s Tribunal on American imperialism; Booker Omole, national vice-president and central committee member of the Communist Party of Kenya; Brahim Rouabah, professor of political science at Brooklyn College; Margaret Kimberly, Black Alliance for Peace, Executive Editor of the Black Agenda Report; Mohammed Zidan, a very long-time activist in the Canadian student movement; David Paul, member of the Sanctions Kill Campaign and Venezuelan Embassy Protection Collective; Adrienne Pine, an anthropologist active with the American Peace Council and the Sanctions Kill Campaign.

The fact-finding mission began its meetings on Tuesday, July 25, when its members met with the Deputy Minister for Anti-Blockade Measures, William Castillo, and the Deputy Minister for North America, Carlos Ron, in the Venezuelan Observatory once morest the Blockade, which provides detailed statistics and resources on the impact of coercive economic measures, not only in Venezuela, but around the world. There was then a visit to the Comuna Socialiste El Panal 2021, where the members of the fact-finding mission learned regarding the effects of the sanctions measures on popular initiatives as well as on the organization of resistance actions and development in to face the “economic warfare” which targets Venezuela.

The fact-finding mission will hold meetings between 24 and 28 July 2023, during which a range of NGOs, popular movements, officials and health workers will be present.

Follow @sanctionstrib on Twitter and on Instagram for further updates from the mission.

Translation : Charleroi-Palestine platform

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